Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007 M12 18 - 544 pages Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until the twentieth century when the Greek army marched in, Muslims were forced out, and the Nazis deported and killed the Jews. As the acclaimed historian Mark Mazower follows the city’s inhabitants through plague, invasion, famine, and the disastrous twentieth century, he resurrects a fascinating and vanished world. |
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... inhabitants . " -The Spectator ( London ) " Mazower has succeeded so well that scholars of all nationalities and religions will refer to this book as their principal source on the city . " -The New York Times Book Review " Mazower is a ...
... inhabitants . " -The Spectator ( London ) " Mazower has succeeded so well that scholars of all nationalities and religions will refer to this book as their principal source on the city . " -The New York Times Book Review " Mazower is a ...
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... inhabitants were neatly dressed. Later I realized most had probably lived there since the 1920s, drawn from among the tens of thousands of refugees from Asia Minor who had settled in the city after the exchange of populations with ...
... inhabitants were neatly dressed. Later I realized most had probably lived there since the 1920s, drawn from among the tens of thousands of refugees from Asia Minor who had settled in the city after the exchange of populations with ...
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... inhabitants remain the same , and their voices ' accent , and also the features of the faces ; but the gods who live beneath names and above places have gone off without a word and outsiders have settled in their place . ITALO CALVINO ...
... inhabitants remain the same , and their voices ' accent , and also the features of the faces ; but the gods who live beneath names and above places have gone off without a word and outsiders have settled in their place . ITALO CALVINO ...
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... inhabitants were neatly dressed . Later I realized most had probably lived there since the 1920s , drawn from among the tens of thousands of refugees from Asia Minor who had settled in the city after the exchange of populations with ...
... inhabitants were neatly dressed . Later I realized most had probably lived there since the 1920s , drawn from among the tens of thousands of refugees from Asia Minor who had settled in the city after the exchange of populations with ...
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... inhabitants " know the Jewish tongue because day and night they are in contact with , and conduct business with Jews . " Yet as I supplemented my knowledge of the Greek metropolis with books and articles on its Jewish past , and tried ...
... inhabitants " know the Jewish tongue because day and night they are in contact with , and conduct business with Jews . " Yet as I supplemented my knowledge of the Greek metropolis with books and articles on its Jewish past , and tried ...
Contents
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Messiahs Martyrs and Miracles | 64 |
Janissaries and Other Plagues | 94 |
Commerce and the Greeks | 114 |
Pashas Beys and Moneylenders | 133 |
Religion in the Age of Reform | 150 |
The Return of Saint Dimitrios | 275 |
The First World War | 286 |
The Great Fire | 298 |
The Muslim Exodus | 311 |
City of Refugees | 333 |
Workers and the State | 347 |
Dressing for the Tango | 359 |
Greeks and Jews | 375 |
Travellers and the European Imagination | 175 |
IO The Possibilities of a Past | 192 |
In the Frankish Style | 209 |
The Macedonia Question 18781908 | 238 |
The Young Turk Revolution | 255 |
Genocide | 392 |
Aftermath | 412 |
The Memory of the Dead | 429 |
Glossary | 469 |
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